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Welcome to our Class Wiki.
The goal of using this Media Wiki to use it as a sandbox to learn the mark up and skills required for collaborative ediiting. Our ultimate goal is to prepare the class to improve Wikipedia Stub articles
- Log in here with your campus ID
- Add your Full Name, Campus ID to the Group Section of this page at bottom
- You can work individually or in groups of 2-5
Our ultimate goal is to improve [[1]] articles. Your mark will improve as you move up the [Quality Scale] you can move up the scale by adding [reliable sources]
- Go to [Wikipedia] and create an account (if you don't already have one)
- Create a user page for yourself. You can put anything about yourself you like
- Go to Wikipedia and surf the list of [Stub] articles
- Decide which [Stub] article you will improve.
- Choose one that is interesting to your group
- Choose an article that you can find reliable resources (journal articles, books, etc)
- Before editing, visit the talk pages. Add a comment, tell them you are editing this stub for an assignment
- Speaking of which, have you visited the discussion page here? Do that now. Add a question or comment there.
- Add the URL to your Wikipedia article next to your group in the section below.
A good article has:
- summary of the important aspects of the subject,
- links to other articles,
- list of publications that were used as sources in writing the article
Quick Reference Help on editing this Wiki and Wikipedia
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Canada_Education_Program/Helpful_Hints
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Cheatsheet
- Images must have zero copyright
Groups
Template:User Sarah Hardman-4669842-Group 1